Data Recovery Charges

Hard Drive Data Recovery Cost

"Hey, I am not able to access my data. Can you recover this data for me? My data is very precious and important."

Our executive "Certainly we can help you with data recovery."

Then the customer asks "How much it will cost to get my data back from the hard drive?"

Data Recovery Charges for any data storage device can be confirmed only after analysis. Without analyzing your data storage device, we cannot estimate data recovery cost and time.

Data loss can be due to any reason and we need time to analyze the device to understand the real cause of data loss. Data recovery charges are directly related with the complexity of the case. Therefore, Higher the complexity, higher will be the data recovery cost.

Every data recovery service provider has their own policies, procedures, and pricing options. But a professional data recovery company estimate data recovery service fee on following parameters:

Problem type - What kind of problem is with the hard drive/media device? All data loss problems are divided into the following categories.

Level of technology to be used to recover data - What kind of technology has to be used to retrieve data from the hard drive? Jobs which are complex in nature are exposed to high-level data recovery technology and need supervision of expert data recovery engineers.

Experienced engineers - How much time a qualified data recovery expert has to devote for the case? Complex data recovery jobs need more attention from experienced engineers.

Spares to be used - How many spares have to be used to make your drive functional? Are these spares easily available or has to be outsourced?

Data privacy safeguard measures - What all procedures and policies are in place to ensure data security?

A professional data recovery service provider gives you complete peace of mind. They also ensure that your data is 100% safe and private.

The probability of getting your data back is very high if you approach a professional data recovery service provider directly. Do not consider professional services as your last option for data recovery.

Each data storage media can store a different amount of data. Also, data storage technology is different for every device. Similarly, the time taken to recover data from each storage device is different. Hence there is the different data recovery cost for every device.

Most of our customers ask us if we charge by per GB data. The answer is No. We charge by the total size of your hard drive. Because it's going to cost us same workforce, time and spares parts for either recovering 1 GB of data or recovering full data on the hard drive.

3. The Storage Capacity
Cost of data recovery is directly proportional to the storage capacity of media.

4. Spare Transplantation for Hard Drive
For physically damaged hard drives, which all spares are required for transplantation. Availability of these spares also decides the cost of data recovery.

5. Tampered Hard Drive
Chances of getting data recovered from a tampered drives are much less than a non-tampered drive. Also, these jobs become more complex after tampering. Hence the cost of data recovery from the tampered hard drive is high than the standard hard drive.

6. Turnaround Time
Data Recovery charges also vary as per your urgency to recover your data. If the demand to retrieve data is immediate, the cost of recovery will be high.

A reputed data recovery company takes into consideration the parameters mentioned above to calculate data recovery charges. While, this may seem like a justification of high data recovery cost but in actual, this is to maintain transparency of data recovery cost.

SSDs have more complex data storage architecture as compared to standard hard drives. Hence the data recovery cost for SSD is more as compared to HDDs.

SD card Data Recovery Cost

Most commonly used data storage devices in India are SD cards, memory cards, Pen drives, CF cards, etc. These devices are portable and convenient to transfer data from one computer to other.

Customers have a mindset that data recovery from SD cards, pen drive, and memory card should be cheap. They compare the selling cost of these cards with data recovery cost. However, this is not the case. One should not compare the cost of the data storage device with the cost of data recovery from the same device.

In case you prefer to visit a professional data recovery service provider for a logical data loss case, they will also charge you around the same range. A professional service provider will charge you on the basis of device storage capacity. For logical cases, you can try professional data recovery software. Try our Photo recovery software, which can recover data from SD cards. Demo version of this software is free.

For physically damaged card data recovery, only professionals can help you in getting your data back. There is no alternative except opting for professional data recovery service. The data recovery cost from a physically damaged SD card will start from ₹ 10,000. Physically damaged SD cards are more complex jobs, hence data recovery charges are higher.